Top 983 Defying Gravity Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

I'm six-foot-five, so it's not easy to be like Ferrer with a very low centre of gravity.

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.

There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity

On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

There is an imperative need for the creator in every supporting actor to be able to perceive the gravity of these roles.

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.

China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.

I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

Opening cans of chili in zero gravity to see how it looks, that's something that went wrong.

What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.

Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

Everything every day here on Earth is based on gravity, and you don't realize it until you don't have it anymore.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

Real space movies have to involve zero gravity and a world without up or down.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

We're always in the middle of two energies. Gravity is sinking you down; inspiration is pulling you up.

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth.

With the finale episode of 'Gravity Falls' our job as storytellers is to finish all the things we've started.

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

Don't talk to me about gravity. When I get out of bed in the morning, I have to be careful not to step on my breasts.

Ask not from whence I came for the gravity of the future pulls me ever forward.

My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

The trouble with plastic surgery is that after 10 years, gravity wins out and you have to have another one in a year or so.

Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

Many spicy condiments blend into fiery sameness, and even the ones that don't hold back on heat often offer little flavor aside from burn. Yet occasionally, a condiment comes along that's like a black hole, compressing physics-defying amounts of flavor in a tiny package. Such is the case with Auria's Kitchen sambal sauces.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.